Monday, December 28, 2015

Some Soccer News for Dec 28, 2015

Just booked my flight to Portland for the Simple Invitational preseason tournament to watch Minnesota United's 3 games, Feb 21-27! See you there.

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US Soccer Awards:
Carli Lloyd 2015 US Soccer Female Player Of The Year
Michael Bradley 2015 US Soccer Male Player Of The Year
Mallory Pugh 2015 US Soccer Young Female Player Of The Year
Matt Miazga 2015 US Soccer Young Male Player Of The Year

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Liga MX has swooped in to nab 4 MLS players in the past two weeks:
-The biggest name being centerback Omar Gonzalez from the LA Galaxy, going to Pachuca.
-LA also lost central midfielder Juninho to Tijuana.
-Luis Gil of RSL signed with Queretaro.
-Jorge Villafana departed Portland just days after winning MLS cup to sign with Santos Laguna.

In what may turn out to be an even bigger switcheroo, young Dallas goalkeeper Jesse Gonzalez has filed papers with FIFA to leave the Mexican national team set up to join the USA.
-The USA will begin its annual month long winter training camp next Monday. No roster has been released yet.

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Frank Yallop has landed a new job after being fired by the Chicago Fire. He has been hired by USL team Arizona United as both team president and head coach.

It has been a December to forget for DeAndrea Yedlin at Sunderland. He started the month fine, but was benched early in a game mid-month and has not appeared since. There is one game left in December to get his season back on track. The team is floundering as well, sitting in 19th place and 8 points from safety.
Jan 2 v Aston Villa
Dec 30 v Liverpool
Dec 26 a 4-1 Loss at Man City - not in 18
Dec 19 a 3-1 Loss at Chelsea - on the bench
Dec 12 a 0-1 Loss v Watford - started, subbed out in the 19th min
Dec 5 a 3-1 Loss at Arsenal - went 90, got a yellow card in 80th
Nov 28 a 2-0 Win v Stoke - went 90

The world's most popular current club coach Pepper Guardiola has announced that he is leaving Bayern Munich at the end of this season. The rumor is that he will be hired to run the show at Manchester City.
-He will be replaced at Bayern by Carlo Ancelotti.

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And in a true holiday gift to everyone, both Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were given 8 year bans from soccer. They will both appeal. Lets hope they lose those appeals.